Recently, we visited my aunt in the village Vanta, Kakheti Region. She is adorable cook and wonderful hostess and prepared some meal for us quite very quickly. 🙂 (Generally people are very hospitable there and always ready to host their guests) ❤

Here is what she served for us:

Looks like Red pine mushroom (not sure) it was just stewed in oil and salted, very simple and delicious

Goose stew – saute sliced onions, put sliced goose in it and keep it on low heat for a while, then pour some mashed tomatoes, cap it and leave for about 20 minutes on low heat. Finally dress with coriander, salt and red chopped pepper.

And finally sweet and juicy watermelon from Kakheti 😉

P.S. And everyone around the table patiently waited, while I was taking these photos ❤ 😀

While heading to Khevsureti there is one of the largest reservoirs in Georgia – Zhinvali Reservoir in Dusheti Region. Being both very beautiful and dangerous (risk of flood), coquetting from the surrounding mountains, Zhinvali Reservoir is of 11.5 sq.km space and of 520 sq.m. capacity.

It has in-flowing rivers Mtiuleti Aragvi and Pshavi Aragvi and out-flowing Aragvi River. Zhinvali Reservoir was formed after constructing of Zhinvali Dam,so, Zhinvali Reservoir is very important for water supply of the Capital Tbilisi.

So for some period of time we traveled along the Zhinvali Reservoir and enjoyed this magnifique scenery.

Couple of weeks ago I visited my relatives in Telavi. There is a kind of tradition, when one visits Telavi City (East Georgia) one also visits old and famous Telavi Bazaar. So we did it as usual, my father was walking around and looking for various things to buy and I was just following him and photo touring around. Things are not quite expensive here and you can find almost anything you want, including handmade products, meet local people and chat with them (and they are so sweet and kind).

As I mentioned in my previous post, many interesting events are held in Tsinandali.

So, about a week ago, Georgian Cheese Festival was held in Tsinandali. For some personal reasons, I was not able to attend this glorious event, though, a kind friend of mine donated to my new blog some nice shots, which I hope you may enjoy:

It was 2010, when I last visited Tsinandali; I was then attending the exhibition of Salvador Dali works and wine sampling.

Tsinandali is a small village in Kakheti, Georgia – 79 km east of the Capital Tiflis.

For brief introduction of Tsinandali Palace, I can say that it belonged to one of the noble families of XIX century Georgia – The Chavchavadze Family;

This was the place where prominent people of various countries met each other, the place uniting art, literature, music, winemaking, gardening . . .

Tsinandali Palace was famous for its winery – the oldest and largest winery in Georgia, combining European and Georgian winemaking traditions and for its garden planned by European designers and being stretched on 12 h; 150 plantations from 400 in total, are exotic, brought from foreign countries, the Garden was even compared to Richmond Park and Alexander Dumas mentioned it as the Garden of Eden.

Presently this brilliant place is the Palace-Museum and is used for various events, such as wine fests, exhibitions, conserts, cheese festival, etc.

Yeasterday, I toured in the West of Georgia. Surely, one post cannot cover all the stuff I saw or tasted there, but I would like to introduce you with Shrosha – a small village in Zestaponi Region.

As the village is located near the central highway (close toEuropean Route E60), one cannot pass along without noticing a wide selection of beautiful handcrafted items for sale as gifts or for personal use.

Pottery is well developed in other parts of Georgia as well, and as for the Village Shrosha, it is provided with loamy land and respectively, most of the families follow pottery traditions.

Handicrafted items are exhibited along the Highway for 24/7, people work there by shifts, I noticed that women work at daytime and men work at night there.

My father kept his word and we stopped there for renewing my kitchen with this exceptional pottery.

If you ask, they can write anything on the pottery, your name, etc . .